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Combination drug
Drug with two or more active ingredients

A fixed-dose combination drug is a medicinal preparation combining two or more active ingredients in a single dosage form, standardized for fixed dosing and mass-produced for broad patient use. These combinations simplify treatment, reducing pill burden and improving patient compliance with affordable, often generic drugs. A polypill, typically prepared at a compounding pharmacy, contains four or more ingredients customized to a patient’s medical prescription, including prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, and supplements like vitamins or essential minerals. These preparations address diverse genetic predispositions and treatment needs with tailored dosage forms and release mechanisms.

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Current prescription combination drugs

For more common combination drugs, see WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.

The combination drugs listed below are typically available by prescription only, but specific circumstances regarding a given combination's legal accessibility, or any specific regulation pertinent to ingredient quality, quantities, production standards, sourcing, etc. will vary by jurisdictions, and include:

Combination drugs accessible over the counter (OTC)

Fixed-dose combination drugs for sale over the counter exist around the world, constituting doses that are tolerable to a mainstream consumer population. In the United States, items containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine can be purchased without a prescription, albeit under strict oversight and from behind the pharmacy counter, per the U.S. Federal drug law titled the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005.12

Fixed-dose combination drugs for sale over the counter internationally, including medicine indicated for various purposes:

Combination drugs under development

Combinations drugs for veterinary use

Combination drugs no longer widely available

Medical use and justification of discontinued combination drugs

Most of the combination drugs which have been discontinued since the twentieth century were simultaneously indicated and utilized for treatment of various conditions, with medical use justified as part of a multifaceted, comprehensive approach to patient health care and medical treatment. Central nervous system stimulants were versatile as anorectic, antidepressant, and eugeroic (wakefulness-promoting) agents, boosting mental alertness and physical stamina, as well as the ability to maintain focus and motivation. Theoretically, when combined with a CNS depressant, a stimulant's adverse effects (primarily overstimulation , paranoia, and/or anxiety) could be mitigated or reduced/balanced without eliminating the stimulant's therapeutic benefits. The stimulating component was almost always of the substituted amphetamine chemical class or an amphetamine derivative or analog; the tranquilizing component was either one or more barbiturate salts, or non-barbiturate GABAergic drugs (e.g. meprobamate, methaqualone) with a similar mechanism of action, with tranquilizing, muscle relaxant, and sedating effects.

Patients are empowered with the capability of alleviating symptoms of multiple medical conditions with the ingestion of a single dosage form, reducing the patient's pill burden and consistently showing improved medication compliance scores. The American Association of Orthodontists asserts that fixed-dose combinations "limit clinicians' ability to customize dosing regimens,"54 despite conceding that these combinations were often capable of replacing Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs) in patients with treatment-resistant depression where MAOI treatment is appropriate, but where the MAOI-related dietary restrictions would otherwise hinder patient compliance.

Scientists formulating combination drugs face challenges in the development stages of multi-drug formulations such as compatibility issues among active ingredients and excipients affecting solubility and dissolution55 For prescribers, if one constituent of the combination is contraindicated for a patient, the product cannot be prescribed.5657

Limitations of currently-available combinations

The limitations of combination formulations currently available for treating a widely-inclusive collection of symptoms such as Tourette's is highlighted by there not being a polypill or any combination formula period approved for treating the condition. Medication available, and sometimes used in the context of polypharmacy involves various individual medicines for treating tics and/or generalized anxiety or social anxiety disorder and/or obsessive-compulsive anxieties with use of individual benzodiazepines or SSRIs for the former two conditions, and fluvoxamine or clomipramine first-line treatments for OCD and related disorders, such as hoarding or compulsive decluttering. But, where Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, depression, or insomnia become a primary concern to the patient, it is only through polypharmacy (in this case, adding another antidepressant or a "booster, alongside a hypnotic soporific agent, and/or psychostimulants to both treat ADHD and counteract the sleep inertia, grogginess or hangover caused by the other evening medications).

Tourette syndrome is a neurological tic disorder for which treatment options are currently limited; only the typical antipsychotics, pimozide and haloperidol are specifically approved for treating the tic component of Tourette's;58 clonidine and guanfacine are approved for ADHD, which often comorbid to Tourette's, but not necessarily guaranteed to reduce tics. Typically identified by chronic motor and vocal tics (described by NIH as "semi-voluntary" actions performed in response to a premonitory urge, an internal sensory phenomenon akin to a buildup of tension, only able to be alleviated upon releasing a tic.59 Tourette's, however, is an all-encompassing umbrella term that presents not just as chronic motor/physical and vocal/phonic tics; tics are nearly always comorbid to symptoms of obsessive-compulsive anxiety and/or social anxiety, avoidant personality or schizoid personality, ADHD, as well as insomnia, depression, and traits of high-functioning autism (formerly "Asperger syndrome").

Illicit "street" drug combinations

So-called "powder cocaine" often contains stimulants meant to mimic cocaine's effects; many batches analyzed did not contain any cocaine or coca alkaloids at all; most frequently, "powder cocaine" is found to contain designer drugs and/or research chemicals including synthetic cathinones, MDMA, methamphetamine, caffeine, and increasingly the flesh-eating veterinary antibiotic levamisole have been found in "powder cocaine."60

Since the forced closure of so many pill mills in the U.S. beginning in 2007, a black market for opioids has flourished and continuously expanded.61 As demand increases for relatively mild opioid "pain pills" ranging from codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine, diacetylmorphine (Heroin) items being deceptively sold as such are adulterated by undeclared amounts of highly potent synthetic opioids of questionable purity. Prince died in April 2016 from taking pills he thought were "Percocet;" in actuality, the "Percocet" was not relatively mild oxycodone, but counterfeit "presses" or "pressed pills" that resulted in Prince's gradual ingestion of unknown, but lethal, quantities of fentanyl. "Presses" are synthesized via clandestine chemistry by untrained chemists and often cut with agents including fentanyl, carfentanil, and as of September 2024, nitazenes.6263

Other cutting agents increasingly found in illicit supplies include the veterinary drug xylazine and the designer drugs (synthetic triazolobenzodiazepines) bromazolam, clobromazolam, phenazolam, and flualprazolam.64 In April 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stated a desire to regulate xylazine under U.S. federal drug law) as a Schedule III controlled substance.65 Xylazine is currently a controlled substance under state statutes in Michigan and New York.66

Mandrax is the trade name of a pharmaceutical combination drug consisting of methaqualone and diphenhydramine.,67 once prescribed in South Africa, but banned in 1993. "Mandrax" is now synthesized via clandestine chemistry as a free base preparation, which is smoked for an intense, short-lived "high".68

See also

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